Biography

Born in Marseille where she trained at the Conservatory, Lucie Roche has since her debut alternated between mezzo-soprano and contralto parts.

In the French repertoire, she sings such roles as Carmen (South Korea), Dulcinée from Don Quichotte, Nicklausse / La Muse from Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Saint-Etienne), Geneviève from Pélleas et Mélisande (Neuchâtel), The Princess Clarice from Love for Three Oranges (Bonn, Dijon, Nancy and Limoges), The Mother, The Chinese Cup and The Dragonfly from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Angers and Nantes), and more recently the role of Madame de Croissy from Dialogues des Carmélites (Bordeaux, Lausanne, Marseille). 

She was also heard as Hippolyta from Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lausanne), Olga from Evgeny Onegin (Rennes), Madame Flora from The Medium (Sédières Festival), Federica from Luisa Miller (Angers, Nantes and Rennes) and Maddalena from Rigoletto (Toulon), Flosshilde from Das Rheingold (Marseille), Waltraute and Grimgerde from Die Walküre (Geneva, Marseille), Dryade from Ariadne auf Naxos (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Nancy), a Flower-Maid from Parsifal (Nice), Die Erste Magd from Elektra (Marseille), Die Dritte Dame from Die Zauberflöte (Toulon and Marseille) and Klementia from Sancta Susanna by Hindemith (Forbidden Music Festival).

In the contemporary field, she took part in the world-premiere of The Monster in the Maze by Jonathan Dove at the Aix-en-Provence Festival conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Colomba by Jean-Claude Petit in Marseille and Evariste Galois by Fabio Barcelo with the Avignon Orchestra. In a lighter repertoire, she sang the Mother Abbess from The Sound of Music at the Odéon in Marseille.

Concert-wise, she regularly sings the Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler, El Amor Brujo / La Vida Breve by De Falla, Elijah by Mendelssohn, the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven, the Requiem by Duruflé, the Little Solemn Mass and the Stabat Mater by Rossini, the Requiem and the Coronation Mass by Mozart, the Gloria and Dixit Dominus by Vivaldi, the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, the Messiah and the Dixit Dominus by Haendel, The Seven Last Words of Christ by Haydn, La Vierge by Massenet, Verdi Requiem.

During season 2026-2027, she sings The Princess Clarice from Love For Three Oranges in Lyon in a new staging by Laurent Pelly (with a concert performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) before a staged revival in Strasbourg and Mulhouse. She sings a recital (program “Ô Muses”) at the Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes.